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F.C. Garden Club holds landscape-design workshop

Franklin County Garden Club member Helen Tinnerman of Winchester presented a workshop called “Adventures in Landscaping” at a recent meeting. Tinnerman, who is a master gardener as well as a landscape-design consultant credited through the National Garden Clubs, Inc., gave…

Hornets drop home opener to Whitwell

S The Huntland High School Hornets lost to the Whitwell Tigers 20-6 at home Friday in their first game of the season. The Hornets made it into enemy territory on six of their eight possessions in the contest, but they…

STLS opening theme: “Let’s have S’more Fun!”

The theme for the 14th anniversary of the Southern Tennessee Ladies’ Society’s opening meeting held this month was “Let’s Have S’more Fun.” President Margaret Ann Thomas opened the meeting with some s’more jokes, welcomed all the ladies to the new…

Opinion: The great earthquakes of 1811 and 1812

B At about 2 a.m. on December 16, 1811, the ground began to shake. Large trees swayed, then snapped throughout Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois and other states. Steep bluffs tumbled into the Mississippi River, which overflowed its banks and appeared to…